[zozbot234]

The principled way of "abstracting away the server" is in fact namespacing of all OS-managed resources ala containers. This opens up possibilities like automated process checkpointing and migration, or even seamless vertical scaling to a multi-node cluster (as opposed to a single server node) via a SSI (single system image) environment.

[nostrebored]

Horizontal scaling of systems is not a way that kubernetes or containerization benefits over the cloud. Resource utilization on those horizontally scaled workers can be, however.

[paulryanrogers]

Wouldn't your example be horizontal scaling?